What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

It should not. The bed is not fully sealed unless you have done additional sealing. There are also drain holes in the front floor of the bed. If you are worried just put the tailgate down for an hour or so when the rain stops and park slightly uphill. . There are gaps and the corners.

 

This is pretty neat, I was thinking about having the option to raise and lower the antenna remotely. But I don’t honestly need it day to day, and when I do need it I plan to just raise it once and leave it that way.

What this has me thinking about though is installing some sort of motor to open and close the light bar cover on my CaliRaised premium rack. Would be nice if when the bar is activated from my spod, the cover would open and vice versa.. any suggestions?

 

Just the driveway test where it did perform as advertised. I was able to set my alarm and view my home cameras which I usually can’t in my driveway for some reason. Once I get out and about with it I’ll post my thoughts.

 

$34 Erfo Mini Electric Linear Actuator, 12V 2" Stroke, 90N/20.3lb, Speed 9.5mm/s Micro Electric Motion Actuators Small Linear Actuator 12VDC with Mounting Brackets

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Linear actuator would work for that.

 

Breaking in 5.29s today!

 

looks like fun!

i'm really hoping to do mine this year, though other factors outside of my control are at play...

this is what happened to the last truck, that is going to happen to this truck, plus sound dampening:

 

It won’t, but after you drive it in the rain, check the seams along the headboard, where the fender sides tie in, it may weep some water there. I used a spare piece of close cell foam on both sides with silicone to isolate the weeping rain that ran into the box.. wasn’t much, but could be a PITA is you have something in the back ya don’t want to get wet..

 

In my never ending quest to make the cover of Mall Crawler Magazine and add to the chapter in my book called "Why Do I Buy Shit Like This? I added some matte carbon mirror caps to cover the crappy peeling Toyota clear coat, and these ever so functional blue rock ring bolts and valve caps on my Methods.

 

Finally got around to mounting my case on the prinsu rack. Not excited about drilling holes in my storm case but its been collecting dust under the bed long enough. After I mounted the first front bolts I used blue chalk to mark the rear holes and measured them the same distance apart as the front. Worked really well. Tight fit and sandwiched with a rubber washer and sealant around the bolt. Washer under the case too. All black coated hardware except the top washer to hold all down, thats zinc coated.

 

Finally removed the oval side steps that came with the truck after 2 years lol

 

Did a tire rotation and installed a set of wheel spacers. Picked these up at 4WP. They were out of my typical spidertrax so I went with the G2s. Hopefully they do as well as the spidertrax. Haven’t used these before.

Anyone have any experience with G2s?

 

7 Days.

She lasted 7 Days since leaving the dealership before mods begun.

Installed:

TRD Trail Edition Grill
1.25 Seat Blocks
Hondo Garage Vent mount
Trail Grid Pro Dash Cam power dongle


She'll basically be a Trail Edition once I get new Rims and Tires soon, then I'll have to come up with new decals for the bed.

 

New tires. I got 32k out of the oem wrangler adventure kevlar. Got a good deal on revo3’s in 114t and I upsized from 265/70/16 to 265/75/16 no rubbing at all normal driving. Rides smooth and comfortable and really low almost unnoticeable road noise. I was going to get the
GO15’s bit I got these for the same price. Big ups to Costco for reprogramming a tpms for free. I took it to the dealer a while back because i was getting vibrations at hwy speed. I even mentioned that i thought it could be the tpms broken insode the wheel as i was getting tpms light too. They said i need front ant back breaks and new tires and alignment. I took it home and rotated the tires and could hear the tpms broken bouncing around in the tire. I bought an oem tpms for $100, put the spare on, cut the old tire with a sawzall and replaced the tpms before taking it in for new tires. On top of that i almost bought tores from the dealer and they said they could order anything, than said they couldn’t the GO15, revo3, or at3, just kept pushing the same recommendation of Hankooks they made from the start. Almost went for it too, would have cost me almost $2k with tires i didnt even want. Total cost so far is 1100 i just need front pads and ill be all in for less than 1300. Fk the dealership i only went to them for diagnostics and they couldn’t even to that right.

 

Front and rear brakes with 32k?????????? Either you never take your foot off the brake pedal, or the dealer is trying to steal your money by not being truthful about your brake pad status!

 

Installed bed stiffeners

 

what coilover is that?

edit: found out they were dobinsons.

 

put 2" spacers on. had to do cab mount chop to clear with 33s.

 

They tried to rip me off. The only reason I took it there is because I didnt think i was a balance issue because I had the truck for 3 months before it started and I didnt really think the tpms would just snap off for no reason. I change my own brakes and oil and would probably install my own lift if i bought one. I checked the brakes they probably have another 30k on them. And “rear drum brake service” never even heard of that but I looked it up and can definitely do it myself of its even needed lol.

 

How do you like those mirror caps? solid? where did you get them from?

 

Rear drum brake pads on these Gen 3 Taco's routinely last in excess of 100,000 miles, unless you have a stuck drum I can't see why they would need replacement at 32K! that sir is insane, I can't believe the dealership would even dare recommend something like that unless as I mentioned there is some other issue that caused your pads to stick (it does happen) There are a couple of specialized tools to make drum brake replacement easy, they're not expensive but really make the job a breeze that without them is a real P.I.T.A.